Adel , IDP, was holding back his tears as he looked at his farm, which war had turned into a deserted land. He owned a palm farm with about 400 fruitful trees in the village of Al-Habeliya, Al-Jah District, Beit Al-Faqih District, Al-Hodeida Governorate.
 
Adel said, "The farm was everything for me and my family. Our financial situation was good. There were trees more than 50 years old. My father inherited the farm from my grandfather. We used to work hard and sell dates."
 
When armed clashes reached Al-Jah area, with the farm on the front line, all villagers were forced to flee, leaving everything behind.
 
Al-Jah is characterized by growing palm trees, and most of the people there owned small farms. A large number of these farms were turned into scenes of violent battles in the period from 2018 to 2022.
 
Adel and his family fled to the village of Al-Mashaikh in the sub-district of Al-Tur, which is about 10 kilometers away from Al-Jah. He could hear the sounds of explosions. He thought that war would not last long and that he would soon return to his farm and home.
 
For 4 years, Adel tried to take the risk and visit his farm to check on it, but he was not allowed to reach it because it was not safe.
 
One day when the road was opened, Adel hurried to visit his village and reach his farm despite the dangers and fears of mines. The village was like a ghost town, everything was destroyed or burned, but the great shock happened when he reached the farm.
 
Adel recalls what the farm looked like when she visited it for the first time, saying, "It was completely burnt. I never imagined it would vanish. I checked it tree by tree, and found that everything was over, even our houses were completely destroyed."
 
Accompanied by Adel, we wandered through the remains of the farm, the remains of life, the trunks of palm trees broken or bent on the ground, the remains of ashes here and there. It was painful telling us his memories with each tree, its age, its fruits, etc. Every tree has a story that Adel sadly remembers.
 
Adel is currently working intermittently in Al-Tur market, with an amount not exceeding 1,000 riyals per day, which is not enough to support his family and his 7 children, the oldest of whom is 11 years old and the youngest one and a half years old.
Adel's family was one of the displaced families that NFDHR targeted with two bags of shelter and non-food items with the support of the Humanitarian Fund (YHF) among 776 displaced and affected families and a host community in Bait Al-Faqih district.
 
It is not easy to pay for Adel's loss, just thinking about replanting it again, digging a new well and obtaining water, a pumping system that needs a lot of money and years of work, fatigue and spending in order to start producing and selling its crops again.